Elaine L. Orr

Broken Ornaments Healing Holidays (Family History Mystery Series) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Digger Browning had had a falling-out with her reporter friend Marty and she isn't sure they can fix it.

To distract herself, Digger and her very pale Uncle Benjamin sort through boxes in the cellar of the Ancestral Sanctuary. They find a carefully wrapped (but broken) ornament Uncle Benjamin's late wife, Clara, found and cherished. It had been made by the Meadow Mountain Ornament Factory, which burned in 1948. Digger is surprised she never heard of the firm, especially because of its sad ending.

She meets Hank, a man whose family owned the firm. He's puzzled about why his great grandmother never talked about the company or its demise. He and Digger learn a young man died in the fire, though his body wasn't immediately discovered and could not be identified.

Audrey, the great granddaughter of Garrett County slaves, briefly met the young man, who had been passing through town. He told her his first name was Abraham, and she believes people didn't try hard to identify him because he was a stranger and because he was African American. People cared less than they would today. Hank commits to trying to learn who he was and erecting a meaningful stone marker in the local A.M.E. Cemetery.

The search is a chance for to do some research with Marty -- even if they are barely talking to each other. A snowstorm complicates things, but gives Digger a chance to get wise counsel -- and occasional teasing -- from her cousin Franklin. It also gives Marty a new appreciation for Maple Grove as he helps dig out the town.

The snowed-in silence of Christmas Eve brings reflection and maybe a chance to make things right again. Digger and Franklin also realize that Aunt Clara kept that ornament in memory of young Abraham. Maybe the damage can heal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elaine L. Orr
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231428137
• Artikelnr.: 76024541

Autorenporträt

Elaine L. Orr writes four mystery series, including the fourteen-book Jolie Gentil cozy mystery series, set at the Jersey shore. "Behind the Walls" was a finalist for the 2014 Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem Awards. The second book in the River's Edge series--set in rural Iowa-- "Demise of a Devious Neighbor," was a Chanticleer finalist in 2017.

The Logland series is a police procedural with a cozy feel, and began with "Tip a Hat to Murder" in 2016 The Family History Mystery series, set in the Western Maryland Mountains began with "Least Trodden Ground" in 2020. The second book in the series, "Unscheduled Murder Trip," received an Indie B.R.A.G. Medallion in 2021.

She also writes plays and novellas, including the one-act play, "Common Ground" published in 2015. Her novella, "Falling into Place," tells the story of a family managing the results of an Iowa father's World War II experience with humor and grace. Another novella, "Biding Time," was one of five finalists in the National Press Club's first fiction contest, in 1993. "In the Shadow of Light" is the fictional story of children separated from their mother at the US/Mexico border.

Nonfiction includes :Words to Write By: Getting Your Thoughts on Paper: and :Writing When Time is Scarce. She graduated from the University of Dayton and the American University and is a member of Sisters in Crime and the Independent Book Publishers Association. Elaine grew up in Maryland and moved to the Midwest in 1994.

Her fiction and nonfiction are at all online retailers in all formats -- ebooks, paperbacks, large print, and (on Amazon, itunes, and Audible.com) audio in digital form. Paperbacks can be ordered through Barnes and Noble Stores as well as t heir online site.

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